Electronic Databases
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- ABI/InformIndex to national and international business journals. The majority are full text.
- Academic Search Elite Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories.
- Business & Industry"Contains important facts, figures and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. B & I focuses on a body of literature that includes leading trade magazines, newsletters, the general business dailies."
- Business DatelineCitations to regional business articles.
- Business Full Text Index to business journals. Full text.
- Disclosure Reports - see LexisNexis Academic Financial reports on publicly owned companies. Once you are in Lexis-Nexis, Click on Business, Search for Company by name, then click on Financial information.
- EconLit"Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers."
- LexisNexis AcademicProvides access to 6,000 news, business, legal and reference information. Some full text.
- Readers' Guide Full Text
Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area Index Tables)
- WorldScope GlobalFinancial reports on companies worldwide.
- General Electronic Databases
Print Resources
- A Dictionary of Economics (REF HB 61.B554)
- NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) (CD-ROM located in Government Documents, 3rd floor) Also available online through STAT.USA NOTE: must search the online version of STAT.USA in the library due to login requirements. Ask at the Reference Desk.
Comprehensive Sites on Economics
- Antitrust PolicyThe project links four types of information: antitrust case documents (complaints, opinions, and expert testimony); enforcement guidelines and speeches; economic bibliographies; and current antitrust issues in the news.
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemFederal Reserve's duties fall into four general areas:
- conducting the nation's monetary policy;
- supervising and regulating banking institutions and protecting the credit rights of consumers;
- maintaining the stability of the financial system; and
- providing certain financial services to the U.S. government, the public, financial institutions, and foreign official institutions.
- Fed In Print This database indexes, to the abstract level, all Federal Reserve System economic research documents. The InMagic Web Publisher retrieval software allows searching many different ways and results include links to full text, if available.
- EconData.net Guide to regional economic activity on the Web. More than 1000 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider.
- Economic Indicators "Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly compilation is prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisors and provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance."
- Finance Resources on the webA portal for financial information online.
- History of Economic Thought This web site serves as a repository of collected links and information on the history of economic thought, from the ancient times until the modern day. It is designed for students and the general public, who are interested in learning about economics from a historical perspective.
- Yahoo! site for Economics
Miscellaneous
- American Institute for Economic Research: AIER Cost-of-Living Calculator"To use this calculator, enter a dollar amount ... and then select the year you want to convert from and the year you want to convert to." Data available from 1913 to the present, using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)."
- Inflation Calculators"This page links to several useful tools that compute such things as the inflation rates of major cities and categories; cost of living comparisons between major U.S. metropolitan areas; inflation rates; and cost of living comparisons for hundreds of U.S. and international cities."
- The International Monetary FundThe IMF is an international organization of 184 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.
Economics at UW-Platteville
- The Economics Office is located in 446 Gardner and the contact person is John Ifediora. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call (608) 342-1550.
- James Hibbard is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Economics program. Contact James at (608) 342-11229 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in Economics. His e-mail address is hibbardj@uwplatt.edu.